Enough Polling, let's Vote!

I don't know about the rest of you, but after five days of Banner Election Headlines based on one questionable poll, I'm half expecting the upcoming election to be cancelled altogether. Why waste time and money exercising our right to vote when the Rocky Mountain News/CBS 4 already has decided every issue and race? What a great idea to simplify the election process - just let the first 500 people who answer their phones elect everybody for the rest of us. Forget the fact that for such surveys to be considered valid, they require more than twice that number of responses. Don't let a little thing like a 4.38 margin of error stand in the way of real Election Day results. Which means that these suspect surveys could reflect an actual 8.76% error and that doesn't even take into account the normal biases of evening phone polling.
I can understand why the Rocky/CBS 4 would rather spend five days analyzing poll results - which is easy, as opposed to doing actual reporting on the issues and the candidates - which is hard. Just because the Media is lazy and wants to decide this election for us doesn't mean they'll get away with it, especially if informed and responsible voters use this survey for fish wrap and don't surrender their vote to the Media.